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Student Instructions
1. Read the sentence on Page 1. Try your best and use your reading finger. 👆 2. Answer one question on each Answer It page (Pages 2–4). 3. On the Show It pages (Pages 5–6), follow the directions to tell about the sentence using your voice or a video. 4. On the last page, reflect on how your reading felt today by choosing an emoji answer.
Teacher Notes (not visible to students)
This activity uses a very simple growing sentence to help first graders build confidence with print concepts, one-to-one matching, and fluency. The passage shows how a sentence can grow by adding one or two words at a time, ending with “The cat sat on the mat.” Students then answer a mix of multiple-choice, short-answer, and drag-and-drop questions to check their understanding of who and what the sentence is about and how it changes from line to line. Use Page 1 for modeled, shared, or independent reading practice. Seesaw will provide automatic grading data for the ReadingFluencyQuestion, but you should still listen to student recordings to check accuracy, pacing, and expression. For the open-ended questions on Pages 5 and 6, high-quality responses should clearly show that the student understands the sentence grew by adding words (Page 5) and that they can create their own simple growing-style sentence with an animal and an action (Page 6). Correct or strong answers should be on-topic, use simple complete thoughts, and show clear speaking; mark answers as correct if they show basic understanding, even if language is not perfect.
